For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.For His invisible attributes, namely, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.For although they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
Romans 1:18-23

Man’s tendency to speculate in one way or another that there was chaos in his beginning is simply his philisophical attempt to legitimize the presence of sin and darkness within his own soul. For he knows where he came from, and where he ought to be going; but he loves the darkness instead of the light, because his deeds are evil.

And we have been given this great revelation:

In the beginning was Logos:with God was Logos,and Logos was God.

Logos (Jesus Christ, here characterized by John as Logos) cannot proceed from chaos; chaos is by very definition of its nature the deviation from Logos. Logos cannot but only be first and primary.

For there to even be chaos, there must already subsist either an existence and/or a being distinct from God which is capable of rejecting Logos, since God Himself is not a God of confusion. The Spirit of Christ declares of Him that in the beginning only God’s Logos was, and this Logos was indeed very God. Such a decription leaves no room forany existence or being outside of Him “before” creation.

Neither, then, in the beginning, could there have yet been that chaos of which men speak; since there only was God, with whom is that Word (Logos), within whom no deviation can be. And so, where there is found chaos and disorder, the true and orderly beginning has to have come before it, and then a transgression. For chaos is a transgression of Logos.

As the scripture says:

In the beginning, God……and God created…

By this we see clearly that only God, and that which God creates, and the energies and actions of either, can be spoken of; for elsewise nothing is. It is therefore somewhat misleading when we declare that God created ex-nihilo (“out of nothing”); since nothing is not existent, and nothing is not being. Existence derives from preexistence; being derives from being. Does not nature itself teach us this principle? For truly God is said to have created – as we might axiomize in Greek – ektós-theos(“out of God”); since that which is cannot proceed from that which is not.

All things came into being through Him, and without Him not even one thing came into being that has come into being. (LITV)

“Without Him” means apart from, beside, and includes the meaning of outside of. That which He created, He did not create from outside of Himself; but rather from within Himself. For as it states clearly, apart from Himself there became neither existence nor being. Hence, all things came into being “through” Him, for He is the matrix of all possible existence and of all possible being. Therefore, the nature of the created order, even with disorder now present, unmistakably illustrates His eternal truth because it still bears the marks of the same mystery of He who made it; who both precedes and exceeds it, who both sustains and upholds it by the word of His own power.

And He is before all things, and all things consist in Him.
Colossians 1:17 (LITV)

Creation is originally derivitive of God Himself. The propensity in men to avoid this truth reveals the very separation of the creature from God which began at the fall. Now, this is not a denial of “the many” (the distinction of creation from God) as much as it is neither a denial of “the One” (the consistence of creation through God). For sin is manifested in both denials; because sin itself is the division of the many from the One (the creation from the Creator). For although we are to distinguish between them, they are not meant to be divided; and this division is the fall. For the fall is the creature’s declaration of his independance from the Creator.

Therefore, to deny the One for the many, or to deny the many for the One, is to embrace the very deviation of spiritual selfishness which divided the two. That is the exact definition of heresy. We might clumsily label these two denials of God’s order “pantheism” and “radical individualism;” but they are both manifestations of the same separation of the creature from the Creator: and they both therefore magnify the creature at the expense of the Creator. The one error is not better than the other.

Upon this separation, the Word of Christ (again, characterized as Logos) is exchanged for the constantly disordering motion of chaos; yet only in the life of the creature. For although God created man through Christ; He tasked them to willingly remain in Christ, which they did not. Disorder cannot touch God because He is the final and highest definition of Logos; and He is immovable: so that whatever deviates from His Way removes itself from Him, and He Himself is not changed.

The disorder in ourselves is not to be embraced, nor even tolerated, but rather expelled: otherwise we ourselves will be fully expelled to exist entirely outside of the possibility of grace. Our deviation is not natural to God, in whose image we were intended to exist; therefore we know that it ought not be natural to ourselves.

Logos preexisted chaos, True Life preexisted death; and death will again be swallowed up in victory for all who live through and in Him – He who both preceded and exceeded death. For He precedes all causes, and exceeds all ends. He IS the beginning and the end.

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overtake it.

After all, how could it?

Awake, O sleeper, arise from death; and Christ will give you light.

If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His Logos is not in us.
1 John 1:10

And God said, “Let the waters swarm with swarmers having a soul of life; and let the birds fly over the earth, on the face of the expanse of the heavens.”
Genesis 1:20 (LITV)

The life of God must begin its reign in the heart of the creature – in the earth which has passed through water and the Spirit. We saw by the third day that such is the case, on which day life sprang up to be observed: rooted from the ground below and reaching heavenward, bearing fruit and perpetuating its own kind through the giving over of its own precious seed once more to the ground. For it is in dying to the things of earth held precious that more and even greater things are able to be sown unto reaping.

Yet that is still not the end of maturity for the making of the new creature in Christ; it turns out only to be the furnishing for that which is yet to follow. The earth (or for our purposes here, the heart) which has given itself to the bearing of good fruit welcomes the inner radiance of Christ and the rule of His light in all seasons (day four), capacitating His new creation to host deeper and higher expressions of God’s life.

And God created the great sea animals, and all that creeps, having a living soul, which swarmed the waters, according to its kind; and every bird with wing according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:21 (LITV)

“…having a soul of life… ..having a living soul…” – This is the stage where the various expressions of the Life of God within the creature begin to take on a life all their own. The uniqueness of God’s manifold wisdom in each life is meant to so thrive. The expressions of life which grace the waters are not bound to the surface of them, though at times they may dance between the waters and the air, welcoming the onlooker to search out the depths. And they which grace the heavens in their flight are not continually bound to the surface of the earth, though they often rest near it to establish their dwelling and to multiply their kind. That is to say, where the Life of God is truly at work, it should with maturity become observable in a plurality of expressions; from the hights of heaven’s most glad worship to the depths of the most burdened intercession.

These new expressions of Life in God’s creation are of a higher and more glorious form than the aforementioned plants and trees. They in fact utilize those things simply as their food and as the furnishings of their abode. The good fruit of the ground becomes sustenance for the living creatures in the air and waters, just as the fruitful obedience of Christ to His Father was His daily bread. For the Life which bears the fruit of the Spirit through the creature becomes bread accessible unto others; and in so becoming, its vessel in turn is fed by feeding. What a glorious cycle to be caught up in! Give the Life of God, and you shall receive it in abundance! This descibes not a “karmic” principle by which to gain, but the ongoing sustenance of a selfless living creature unto the glory of He alone who raises it up. This is the evidence of the word of God at last finding freedom enough within us to begin evidencing itself as that unbound word which it truly is.

And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas; and let the birds multiply in the earth.” And there was evening, and there was morning the fifth day.
Genesis 1:22-23 (LITV)

There must, by obedience to every command of the Spirit, develop a harmonious melody of free and spontaneous Life within the creature; each part properly complimenting the other as every wonderful decree of God sets its rhythm. The whole of the new creature cannot operate with perfection where any one of its parts is absent or broken in function – this applies both to an individual child of God as well as to the body of Christ. The body is either built up or torn down according to the obedience of the parts, and likewise the parts are either edified or torn down according to the obedience of the whole. By this, the whole is made fit for the King of Glory to fully enter in: the very Son of God, unto whose image the conformity of the redeemed is predestined. And shall the elect continue giving themselves over to that perfect will of God? Before us this choice continually lies.

As Peter wrote to those of like precious faith:

The Lord of the promise is not slow, as some deem slowness, but is long-suffering toward us(the church),not having purposed any of us(the church)to perish, but all of us(the church)to come to repentance.But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with rushing sound, and having burned the elements will be dissolved, and earth and the works in it will be burned up. Then all these being about to be dissolved, what sort ought you(the church) to be in holy behavior and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the Day of God, through which the heavens having been set afire will be dissolved; and burning, the elements will melt?
2 Peter 3:9-12 (LITV)

And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth.” And it was so.
Genesis 1:14-15

Prior to the formation of these lights within the heavens of the creation, the express light of God began overtaking its inner darkness from without. This is good for a season; but light shining from outside cannot reveal much to the eyes of the creature regarding the seasons, nor effectively convey the signs of the times. Such light from without indeed begins a good work, even unto the bearing of some fruit (see previous post); yet there must become an undying flame of the light shining from within, by whose guidance a good witness is truly obtained.

Christ Jesus came to us at first as a light from without – Emmanuel, God with us: external to men. This was necessary so that He might initiate the process of our conformity unto His image; but it was also necessary that He went back to the Father, so that we might now receive the gift of God’s mystery: “which is Christ IN you, the hope of glory.” Without the indwelling of the Son within, there is no continuation of His making us evermore His own. Men who have only teaching from without, and even a perfect example before them, still can only passively observe; they cannot become with these alone. There must be that excellent law of the Spirit of Life at work; for that Life is the Light of men.

Because it is God who said, “OUT OF darkness Light shall shine,” who shone in our hearts to give the brightness of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure IN earthen vessels, so that the excellence of the power may be of God, and not fromus…
2 Corinthians 4:6-7

The Light of the world now begins to take definite shape “IN the expanse of the heavens” as the Sun of Righteousness. This is the same expanse created on the second day, all contained within the created order – or for our purposes here, within the creature. This formation of light is the preperation for God’s Life to not only bring forth tender shoots or stately trees of the ground, but also to be found freely moving upon its earth and soaring in the midst of its heavens. (Again we see that each day is dawned upon with the intent of preparing for the wondrous work of the next.)

And God made the two great lights – the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night – and the stars.
Genesis 1:16

The day is seen in the rising light of the Daystar of Christ Jesus’ indwelling; and the night remains in places where His light is only yet dimly reflected. The day of the creature is now defined by the express shining of His indwelling Spirit in the expanse He made between the waters, all beckoning up the fruit of our ground and keeping watch upon every matter within reach of His rays. And even the night of the creature is continually encroached upon by the Light of its world through the reflective nature of the lesser light; and with the Light embraced, the Day of the Lord is draws ever the more at hand, when “night will be no more. They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever.” (Rev 22:5)

“…and the stars.” – Not only does the moon reflect the sun’s rays into the night, but now also the Light of Life shines in from fellow vessels, appearing as stars in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, bearing witness to the Truth through a realm devoid of light and substance. These also provide an additional measure of guidance in the traversing of our own earth and waters in the night seasons; and they cause us to marvel at the boundless wonders of the Almighty who placed them in His own heaven, calling them out each by name to the praise of His glory.

Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge.
Psalm 19:2

“And let them be for signs…” – His children are for signs and wonders in Israel (Isa 8:18). Every faithful conduit of God’s light, both from within and without the new creature, serves to confirm His will and speak His word in season and to reveal the way which pleases Him as steadfast markers in an expanse blackened by sin; as voices in the desert ever preparing the way of the Lord. Behold, He cometh!

And God set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.
Genesis 1:17-19

“…to rule over the day and over the night…” – This stage of God’s work within us characterized by Light shining forth from within gives way to His very present and active rule: the law of His Light becoming an inescapable operative principle. Up until this fouth day, God has illuminated, divided, and disciplined waters; He has established ground, and even borne some good fruit in us with relatively low responsibility on our part. But a good Father desires His children to take what light has been given thus far and continually use it to discover what more He has hidden away in the deposit entrusted to them.

“…and to separate the light from the darkness.” – A child of God is one being marked by the growing distinction between light and darkness. Our response to the piercing, the reflecting, and the guiding of His light will determine how much more we become made in His image; for the eye that is not single to this one purpose of God in Christ has left the creature full of great darkness. His children are those of Light, of the Day; they are to remain walking as such. The wise are not content to rest upon the good of yesterday as today’s assurance, for it cannot sustain what God has prepared further in advance; but the reward of today inspires hunger for tomorrow’s blessed obedience. There remains yet room within the heights and depths of the creature to be filled with all manner of His Life, and that in abundance.

All is seen by the Day of the Lord appearing in the heart.– Francis Howgill

And God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be collected to one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so. And God called the dry land, Earth. And He called the collection of the waters, Seas. And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:9-10

God’s work in separating our waters from His (see previous article) brings upon us the ability and thereby also the responsibility to subdue our own raging waters, so that we as the instruments of His will might not hinder the continued work of His Spirit in and through us.

Excerpt from previous section:“The new creature which submits itself to the word continues discovering the evidence of even greater depths in God far above its present experiential knowledge; thirsting always to drink deeper of that eternal spring so that even the earth below might be made conformable to the word of His mouth, bearing much fruit.”

“Let the waters under the heavens be collected to one place.” – It is a grave mistake to suppose that just because God has separated our earthly waters from His heavenly ones, He wants nothing to do with them. Truly, He wants to be the only One to do with them: they must also become His waters, for unto His glory they are created. But this can only occur to the degree that we ourselves give them up unto His higher designs – such obedience is our responsibility. It is by the allowance of His increase within us that we ourselves decrease.

Subsequent to the second day’s obedience of the dividing of the waters, the third day’s work is revealed in discipline of our unruly waters by the word of His mouth: “Let the waters under the heavens be collected to one place, and let the dry land appear.” This now establishes His solid ground within us, raising up the humbled earthen creature to bear fruit by the Spirit of the Lord…

And God said, “Let the earth sprout tender sprouts, the plant seeding seed, the fruit tree producing fruit according to its kind, whichever seed is in it on the earth.” And it was so.
Genesis 1:11

The planting of God produces various fruits according to the measure of grace given it, which also produce fruit after its own kind. Just as a tree yields others of its kind after itself, so also the fruitful Christian plants the seeds of their Godly virtues in the soil of another’s heart. It is on this third day, after the dry land appears, that the inward work of the Spirit is becoming outwardly evident. Just as the dove later sent from Noah sought out dry new ground, and did not settle until such was found; so also the Spirit of the Lord ever seeks within us the hidden ground in which His roots can spread deeply to support His fruit above, according to the calling with which we have been called.

And the earth bore tender sprouts, the plant seeding seed according to its kind, and the fruit tree producing fruit according to its kind, whichever seed is in it. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning the third day.
Genesis 1:12-13

The third day initiates growth in God: it is the day of resurrection which brings up a fruitful harvest through the dying of former things; so that the coming days might become fully lighted by the sun from within the creation, and even the darkness of each night season be kept lit by that hope of the Day of Christ burning within them as a candle

Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
John 12:24-25

And God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so.
Genesis 1:6-7

Once His illuminating work has found a footing in His creation, there is a new and deeper order of distinction which the Word of God brings forth in it. On the first day of creation, we see the Spirit of God brooding over the surface of the waters – and we might even say striving and groaning for the creation to manifest the form which He intends for it. So it is with ourselves in Christ.

Our Potter begins with a lump of clay, formless and void, under darkness. There is depth of water, yet not a revealed purpose for it: not a river to flow in, not a sun to reflect majesty. Then there is light. And in His light, we shall now truly see light, and more still. For not only have waters once darkened and obscured in a mass of mixture now been exposed by the pure light of God Himself, but the Spirit which once hovered over them now sends His rays into the depths by the word of God’s mouth unto to the dividing of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. It is here in the continued shining of His light that the dividing of waters from waters begins to take place. Here, not only is light and darkness discerned upon the suface of the creature; but now more importantly even the depths within this new creation are spiritually discerned.

Natural men are not comfortable with such discernment: they want neither to discern nor to be discerned. Both edges of that sword are equally inconvenient to man’s facáde of peace with God. But the true peace of God is holy, so that the same word of the Lord which creates whatever is good also by necessity divides the good from whatever is contrary. Therefore, if we shall maintain and grow in the peace of God, we must submit ourselves to the more unpleasant surgeries of our Great Physician. Those without the faithful wounds of His word are not His friends. But those who have truly walked in some degree of God’s light are quickly confronted with the revelation of the great expanse between their own waters and His waters resident within this new creation.

And God called the expanse “Heavens” (plural in the Greek, ie: the skies).And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.
Genesis 1:8

His pure waters must be discerned from our own waters lest we deceive ourselves in every matter: this is why He divides them by His word, “let there be an expanse;” therefore we find a distinct choice to either walk after the flesh (our waters) or after the Spirit (His waters). But those who are not divided by His word are filled with mixture, for there is no sword of division within them to so judge between what is of God and what is of self. The separation of waters is a confirmation of His work in us.

The separation of these waters is discernment for the conscience. Here we discover all the more “the exceeding sinfulness of sin;” for in the seperation of His waters, by which our sense for holiness increases, our conscience of sin is thereby sharpened. We find the depth within us of the law of sin and death we must daily contend with: the gravity of which binds our own waters to earth. Conversely, His waters within us are unbound, above the expanse of the heavens; but of our own strength we are unable to access their invaluable resources. It becomes increasingly obvious that there are greater depths of Him with which our present depths cry out to meet; and we begin to see how much higher above our ways and thoughts are His own, “even as the heavens are higher than the earth.” We long to plunge into His waters, to live out of His fountain rather than our own – that His wellspring of eternal life would become our own in Him, that the voice of HIS many waters would be the sound poured out through each of His own.

Deep calls to deep at the roar of YOUR waterfalls; all Your breakers and Your waves have gone overme.
Psalm 42:7

We must discover in our present earthly experience that glorious Law of the Spirit of Life which makes us free from the law of sin and death. It is here in the revelation of the divided waters that obedience becomes of particular importance to the new creature; for by the drawing down of God’s waters from above its own, the creature has begun to sense its great need to follow the upward draw of Lord’s current in order to remain flowing in it. For we are first rained upon by His grace; but by the groaning of His Spirit within us we eventually long to be drawn up into His waters, by which we also become a carrier of blessed rain unto others . The call unto His own ever remains, “Come up hither.” The new creature which submits itself to the word continues discovering the evidence of even greater depths in God far above its present experiential knowledge; thirsting always to drink deeper of that eternal spring so that even the earth below might be made conformable to the word of His mouth, bearing much fruit.

There is an order to the creating work of God. And just as He had an order in the original work of the heavens and the earth, so also He has an order in the making of every new creature in Christ. We might pair the summary statement of the scripture’s first words with these words of the apostle Paul:“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.” (2Cor 5:17)

Yet the work is not completed, though indeed its end is finished in the will of God – but His will shall be manifested in proportion to our conformity to it. “God created the heavens and the earth” – Amen! Yet shall we not uncover the wonder of His every decree in this matter? For the good work which God has begun, He intends to perfect even unto the Day of Christ, who has shined in our hearts by the operation of His power to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God as seen in the face of Jesus.

For just as it was God who created the heavens and the earth, so it must also be HE who makes each one into such a new creation. There is no power within the bosom of man by which he can ascend to the heaven of God; there is no right to which he can appeal in order to be adopted into the Father’s house. And except the mercy of God find us, we are not His children at all, we are truly the Devil’s; for after the likeness of that one we have sought our own glory and dominion and power, only to be cast out of the kingdom of God’s marvelous light. For emptiness and darkness is the natural lot of rebellion against the Excellent One, by Whose mercy undeserved He makes new creatures from the formless clay to the praise of His glory…

The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
Genesis 1:2

Waters deep but undefined,Where no light as yet had shined.Darkness could not comprehendIts reign of sleep should find an end.

Such is the state of every heart uncreated in Christ Jesus. And even of those already being conformed to His image, it remains true regarding the remnant of the old man as it wastes away; the Spirit of God ever striving against its corruption, ever working for the continual deliverance of those who yield it to Him.

But the whole creature – being yet untouched by God in the deepest heart of its waters – over the whole creature the Spirit of God broods with groanings unutterable in the pangs of childbirth until Christ be fully formed in it, that the eyes of those in Him might be ever more enlightened according to His word, so that the new man “being rooted and grounded in love may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, being filled with all the fullness of God.” The Spirit of God will convict and press and outrun a man until he surrenders and deepens in surrender; for God has set His eye to call a people unto His manifold purposes for His singular glory. And upon they who are found heeding the call, He does not ever relent in this mercy; so that a man might truly come to see joy and gladness in the Lord, and that the bones which the Lord has broken along the way may rejoice. “Behold, God does all these things, twice, three times, with a man, to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be lighted with the light of life.” (Job 33:29-30)

And God said, “Let there be light,”and there was light.
Genesis 1:3

Lift up your head, ye trodden down,Look unto He who wears the crown!Behold, the Lamb of God was slain,And over the darkness took His reign!

And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness.
Genesis 1:4

Upon the introduction of light there comes definition. It is an immutable law in God’s creative order that light and darkness are separated. Though men ever seek to obscure this separation in order to hide from the contrast between His perfect way and their lawless hearts, He remains unmoved in inapproachable light; and He will be given an account by every creature, rewarding back to them according to what they have done in light of Him.

The obscuring of God’s light is the obscuring of sight, and except a man be lead by the Light of Life, he shall never see. If we be found with a light which does not keep us evermore exposed before the eyes of the Lord, that is not the true light of God! In the account of the creation, the scriptures establish each day to consist first of evening, and then of morning. That is to say, the true light is ever shining unto the perfect Day; the Daystar is meant to be dawning ever brighter in the hearts of the redeemed.

God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
Genesis 1:5

The separation of light and darkness is the first act of separation in the order of creation. So it is also in the making of a child of God. The presence of His light within us is the foundation of our every step into His ongoing work. By the practice of walking in the light, we begin to better discern between the light and the darkness. It is a simple discernment but a necessary one; it is the basis of our stability in God so that His work in us might continue.

“…In Thy light we shall see light.”
Psalm 36:9

Those who walk not according to the light which they have already received from God never shine brighter – they become quenched in the shadows of their own obscurity. Without the light of the first day carrying over into the second, there is no purpose to what is done on the second, nor any ability for what follows it to function. By obedience our path is continually lightened. As we carry forward in His light, it continues illuminating the path before us as we its carrier step forward into the untraveled dark. Through the experience of conducting ourselves according to our revelation thus far, God can usher us into ever higher things prepared for those who love Him; which no eye has seen nor ear heard – nor can they be seen or heard among those who fail to carry the revelation of the first day into the second and beyond.

But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constantpracticeto distinguish good from evil.
Hebrews 5:1

The timely permeation of natural light through the heavens occurs because God’s creative Word from which it first proceeds was instantaneously fulfilled in all places at all times from eternity.

As we gaze at the skies of the clear night, we see the ever-present Word of God being declared in time immemorial. The Spirit of God which resided over the surface of the formless waters reserved for us this venue, to see from mere thousands of years a wondrous display which by His continual stretching out of the heavens appears to span myriads more.

By this expansion of space (and time with it), the speech of the heavens testifies longer of His wonder than the earth has experienced in its short time – though they both were created the same week. Eons of light speak to a mere few-score centuries of darkness, while man ironically shakes his fist at God who so wisely spoke light and declared all of time into existence.

So the stars and the heavenly bodies speak not of man’s dawning, but of God’s Eternal Day. And the lights here on earth, they also are born of the Father, a witness of the arising Daystar; and they too speak from eternity into time for the wise to hear and take heed. Their voice goes out into all the earth; yet still men harden their hearts and give no thought to He who shall bring them into judgement for all this witness when He rolls up the heavens like a garment. From the beginning He will have been revealed to the end, just as from the end He was revealed to the beginning.

Many are the children of darkness, many are the fruitless falling stars. Those without the Word of Truth dwelling richly in their hearts flicker back into darkness once again; but the Unchanging Light shines brighter and brighter unto the perfect day, and the children of light with it.

Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
James 1:16-18